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In 1977, saxophonist Art Pepper was approached by Japanese label Atlas about possibly doing some
recording. Pepper, then under contract to the Fantasy/Galaxy label, was obliged to find a work-around and decided to appear as a sideman on the recordings, ...

Birdland was a posthumous release that contained material Lester had recorded with a New York
band (also known as the Rattlers) that featured Joey Ramone's brother. This was more post-punk pop-sounding than his earlier stuff (especially Let It Blurt), and ...

Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky, O'Donel Levy's follow-up to his excellent Simba, is something
of a letdown in comparison. Simba featured a bunch of solid tunes, written and dynamically arranged by Manny Albam. Although both albums were produced by ...

Soul-jazz and Hammond B3 pioneer Jimmy McGriff made the Groove Merchant record label his home
base for the better part of the 1970s, releasing the often overlooked Fly Dude in 1972. This is McGriff at his most varied. Working with ...

This 1971 session finds McGriff continuing to do like so many other jazz musicians of
the time: embrace and adapt to the emergence of funk and soul into mainstream music, and recontextualize it in a jazz arena. The results are ...

Inner Crisis by Larry Willis is one of the very finest examples of electric jazz-funk
from the mid-'70s. With sidemen who included guitarist Roland Prince, drummer Al Foster, tenor saxophonist Harold Vick, and trombonist Dave Bargeron, as well as bassists ...